A woman in Kentucky is sharing her harrowing story of how she escaped rising floodwaters last week with her grandmother.
that she was with her 82-year-old grandmother, Carylon, when the flooding started in their southeastern Kentucky neighborhood.
Williams said the two were treading water for over an hour, trying to reach a hill behind their home. She said there wasn’t much to grab onto as she tried to keep herself and her grandmother, who can’t swim, above water.
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